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第1学期 高级英语（第一册）A卷 ? Directions: 1. Write all your answers on the Answer Sheet. 2. You must hand in both your test book and your Answer Sheet. ? I. Fill in the blank of the following items with the correct form of the word given in the brackets. Make sure the word you fill in is appropriate both syntactically and semantically. (10%) ? Example: We are determined that the law shall be enforced. (determination) ? 1. Marriage of business and technology is more important now than it ever has been, because a ___________ and successful relationship between the two can give a firm an edge over its rivals. (harmony) 2. The historical settings and the international and local and cultural ___________ are so different in our two cases that even the most imaginative and daring historians would think twice about taking on such a comparative project. (peculiar) 3. My 60-year-old husband, Joe, is obsessed with nudity. He has been after me to join a nudist club for five years. ... Now that he is older, he may feel less __________. (inhibition) 4. Ramadan is the month on the Islamic lunar calendar when Muslims abstain from food, drink and other ________ pleasures from dawn to sunset. (earth) 5. Nokias fight against the distribution and sale of counterfeit batteries, which are generally cheaper and often __________ from the genuine article, is not new. (distinguish) 6. Iain Duncan Smith delivered a speech to the 2003 Tory party conference in Blackpool yesterday that was nasty, ________ and long. Inevitably, it went down well with the party faithful in the Winter Gardens. (brute) 7. His stepfather told him to find a sport he could ________ at, and he found swimming, which remains his preferred exercise. (excellent) 8. Attorneys for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel filed an appeal Monday seeking to overturn his ___________ for the 1975 murder of a teenage neighbor. (convicted) 9. Warning that the clock stands at one minute to midnight, the United Nations appealed for 25 million dollars to he